94 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



flowers, have a pretty, but most un-rose-like ap- 

 pearance. The Rose-coloured Banksian Rose is a 

 hybrid, with very bright rose-coloured flowers, 

 the whole plant partaking as much of the charac- 

 ter of the Boursault Rose as of the Banksian : in 

 fact, it is a most complete mule ; and though it 

 has lost a little too much caste in the shape and 

 size of its flowers for they are a degree larger, 

 and not quite so double as those of the Banksian 

 Rose it will prove a very pretty, bright-coloured 

 climber, and quite hardy. The Rosa Banksia 

 Odoratissima, lately introduced from France, and in 

 some catalogues said to have rose-coloured flowers, 

 in others rose-coloured margined with white, I 

 am fearful is a rose with a "nom d'affaire." 



The true Banksian Roses are not adapted for 

 pillar roses, as they are too tender : they require 

 a wall, or very sheltered situation. Their very 

 early flowering, also, renders this quite necessary, 

 as the spring frosts, in cold exposures, destroy the 

 bloom in the bud. They bloom more freely in 

 dry than in wet, retentive soils, and they require 

 pruning with care, for none of the small and 

 twiggy branches should be shortened; but, if the 

 plant has a superabundance, some of them may be 

 removed. If their branches are shortened they 

 will not bloom, but put forth a profusion of strong 

 shoots. The flowers will be generally found in the 

 greatest abundance on these small and twiggy 

 branches, which at once points out the necessity 



